STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out

STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out
STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out
STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out
STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out
STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out
STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out
STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out
STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out
STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out
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Dentally-challenged adolescents everywhere might be pleased to know that even the Statue of Liberty, it appears, wears headgear. As seen in 1984, strap-iron armature holds the statue's copper skin in place.

Lady Liberty's face, according to some historians, is modeled after that of the mother of the statue's designer, French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi.

The statue was a gift to the U.S. from France to commemorate the friendship forged during the American Revolution. The colossus was formally dedicated on October 28, 1886.
—Photograph courtesy Historic American Engineering Record, Library of Congress
 

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